Mind Quotes
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Of course I want to have a deliciously seductive story on the surface which will keep people engaged and amused, but primarily, I'm interested in other things. It's the texture of any given moment that fascinates me: what is really going on between people or in somebody's mind.
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He can't even be at a casual read and not be creating the whole thing in his mind. I remember feeling very awed about how much he still seems to be so in love with it, and so dedicated to making everything really real and really spontaneous.
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There's no question that the mind-body connection is real, even if we can't quantify it. Hope is one of the greatest weapons we have to fight disease.
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I wouldn't mind being a bit taller.
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The leading edge of reality is mind, and mind is the primary substratum of being.
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'Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprize, every expanded prospect.'
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I'm afraid the workings of J.J. Abrams' mind falls outside the predictive capacity of any coherent theory.
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The most difficult dilemma for a person is perhaps when his heart testifies to an inevitable reality yet his tongue will not proclaim it, when his mind screams in acceptance of truth but he cant bring himself to state it.
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Worship is not simply a feeling that is experienced; it must also involve understanding and the mind.
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I saw that my witticism was unperceived and quietly replaced it in the treasury of my mind.
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It's very rare that I get stopped or get asked for an autograph or anything - none of which I mind - but people don't really care that much.
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I know that I am a singer and an actor, yet in order to give the public the impression that I am neither one nor the other, but the real man conceived by the author, I have to feel and to think as the man the author had in mind.
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A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.
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Look at your own mind. The one who carries things thinks he's got things, but the one who looks on sees only the heaviness. Throw away things, lose them, and find lightness.
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You must linger among a limited number of master-thinkers, and digest their works, if you would derive ideas which shall win firm hold in your mind.
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Science is an enterprise that should be cherished as an activity of the free human mind. Because it transforms who we are, how we live, and it gives us an understanding of our place in the universe.
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The mind of man may be compared to a musical instrument with a certain range of notes, beyond which in both directions we have an infinitude of silence.
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If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.
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God does not delay to hear our prayers because He has no mind to give; but that, by enlarging our desires, He may give us the more largely.
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Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map.
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A lamp does not flicker in a place where no wind blows; so it is with a yogi, who controls his mind, intellect and self, being absorbed in the spirit within him.
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I'm not very big on politics. I'm a comedian and not that smart. I don't have the mind capacity for it.
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The thing with physical preparation is I have tons of friends who train at a really high level and who can give me advice. But with mental training, I don't really know anybody who has a much better mind for climbing, I guess, so I don't really know where I would go. It's not really a limiting factor for me.
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Of course politics is an interesting and engrossing thing. It offers no immutable laws, nearly always prevaricates, but as far as blather and sharpening the mind go, it provides inexhaustible material.
